Reda: I don't own Dragonball Z...ho hum...I'm tired now...

Vee: Here we are...born to be kings...we're the princes of the universe...

Reda: Oh no! Not this again!

Pieboy: What? I like this song!

Vee: and here we are...we're the princes of the universe...fighting for survival.

Jake: Good song.

Reda: Yeah, but...he can't sing.

Pieboy: Well if Reda likes it I don't.

Reda: You are impossible!

Vee: I am immortal I have inside me blood of kings!

Chi-Chi: What is he trying to sing?

Pan: Hey! Don't insult his singing!

Vee: (smiles) Thanks Pan. You're the only one to stand up for me...I have no rival! No man could be my equal!

(Pan joins in)

Vee and Pan: Born to be kings...Princes of the universe...

Gohan: How does Pan know the song and I don't?

Reda: Don't worry, Gohan. It's not your generation.

Jake: Reda, what about the story?

Reda: Oh! Right. I almost forgot!

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Chapter 37: Pan's Power

Go Pan! Go Pan! It's your birthday! It's your birthday! Oh, okay, so maybe Pan doesn't have a chance, but I still got a cool show planned.

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"Kakarot, come on we've got to find a way out of this place," Vegeta said, trying to sound annoyed but having it come out as desperate.

Goku, down on hands and knees and sweating as he fought against the invisible powers of Empty Space, could barely reply. "Vegeta, I can't...hang...on...much...longer."

"What?" Vegeta exclaimed, showing signs of shock in every possible way.

Sweat trickled down Goku's face as he took his breath in quick, sharp gasps. "Vegeta, it's Empty...Space...Psyfoam..."

He didn't get to say much more because Vegeta reached a hand over and knocked him out with a quick jab to the neck. "I don't know if that'll help much, but it should at least slow down this 'process' that changed Psyfoam. You are not turning into an evil maniac like Psyfoam, Kakarot," he said, obviously going back to calling Goku by his Saiyan name.

Even as he spoke that familiar sense of wrongness, which he could remember feeling when he was fused with Goku, came back, even if it wasn't in full force. Vegeta grimaced as his skin prickled. He knew he wasn't pure-of-heart, so the Empty Space "process" wouldn't affect him right away like it had Goku, but it would affect him sooner or later. Taking what Psyfoam had said earlier about this area of Empty Space being special, Vegeta reached down, slung Goku over his shoulder, and started walking in no particular direction.

We'll get out of this, Kakarot. You can trust me, just like you always have.

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Pan put her face in a frown, mostly because she knew there was nothing to be smirking about, yet. Her black hair waved partially from underneath the red bandana. She spread her feet apart, centered her right hand below her waist as she leaned down, and kept her left arm in a position behind her where she could have more momentum in her punch. It was "her" stance, and out of all the Z warriors she was the only one to use this stance, at least to her knowledge.

She noticed Psyfoam hadn't moved from his relaxed, calm position. That set her off. "Can you at least acknowledge that you're in a fight? I mean, get in some kind of stance."

He barely smirked, "Obviously you haven't been watching me. I don't 'get in a stance' unless I absolutely feel the need."

"What does that mean?" Pan shouted with her eyebrows lowered. "Are you saying that I'm a push over? Because if that's what you're thinking I believe you're wrong. I am no push over!"

"Pan, don't dig yourself deeper with your words; that's Vegeta's problem..." Gohan muttered from his position on the cliff.

This time, Psyfoam did laugh. "Are you sure about that, little girl? Gogeta was a push over."

"Yeah, well, you cheated!"

Psyfoam continued to cackle like some crazy madman. "You just don't get it, do you? That's what you younger Saiyan hybrids don't seem to understand. In a fight to the death there is no fairness, there are no rules, and 'cheating' is quite normal," he smirked, "especially for me. To cheat is to live or win. To play fair is to die or lose."

Pan couldn't help but smirk there. "Well, that's stupid; who made that up?"

Psyfoam scowled, "What are you implying?"

"Implying? Uh...what does that mean?" Pan said, causing her father to slap his face in his hands.

The evil being rolled his eyes. "What are you 'getting at?'"

"Oh...that the person who made that little saying is stupid," Pan replied.

Psyfoam's scowl widened, "I made that 'little saying,' girl. You should watch what you say. Calling me stupid is worse than calling Vegeta, or your father stupid...way worse."

Pan gulped at the glare he gave her. Oops. Now that was definitely the wrong thing to say. This is going to hurt.

All that Pan saw was the rustle of Psyfoam's black cape and then she had been punched hard right in the face. She could feel blood trickling from her nose at the same time she felt anger toward the evil enemy. Before she could set herself right side up, however, Psyfoam appeared below her and kicked her up in the air. Pan let out a scream as the air rushed by her, and then her breath was taken away when a black fist plummeted into her stomach and she fell to the ground, skidding a couple feet as she coughed up her own spit.

"Damn, he's just too powerful! I can't even follow him!" Pan exclaimed in a hoarse whisper.

A different voice from besides her spoke up, "Oh come on, now. That kind of attitude won't get you anywhere, even if it is the truth. Shit, if I was like that I wouldn't be as cool as I already am."

Pan smiled as the cocky teenager, Vee, told her how to fight Psyfoam, or at least how to act in a fight with Psyfoam. Even if he had been defeated in the strangest way, Vee was still cool because he still had the attitude, even though he was lying on the ground half-conscious. She envied that. Vee wasn't scared of anything; he had no worries.

"Oh, so I should spit in his face while saying 'you may defeat me in the battle, but I'm gonna win the war,' right?"

Vee laughed at that. Well, it could be called a laugh, even with all the hoarse rasping in it, it hardly sounded like a real laugh. "Sounds just like me."

"Oh really?" That was the voice of Psyfoam.

Pan winced as a dark hand gripped her shirtfront and pulled her up to the strange eyes of Psyfoam. "Leave her alone, Psyfoam!"

"Oh...so...you care for the granddaughter of Kakarot, your brother's biggest rival? How odd...you Saiyan monkeys truly are another species."

Pan closed her eyes as Psyfoam tightened his grip on her shirtfront, sending pain rippling through her. She could hear Vee's raspy, defiant voice, "No, Psyfoam, you aren't even part of a species so you can't say anything, and as for Vegeta...I would rejoice if my brother went to hell and stayed there."

Psyfoam smirked, "Oh, he's in a much worse place than hell, along with Goku."

Pan barely heard the gasp as she coughed, "You didn't...You couldn't...Oh man, Reda's going to kill you when she finds out..."

"That's enough, Vee," Psyfoam ordered and Vee's voice broke off.

Pan opened her eyes to see the cocky boy hanging from Psyfoam's tail grip on his neck. And then she caught the gleam in Psyfoam's eyes, stifling a cry of terror with a bite to her lip. He in inhumane; just not human at all!

"Of course not, Pan. What did you think I was?"

Her eyes shook and then she screamed as he threw her hard and fast. Surprisingly, she landed on the ground far away without getting stopped by an attack from the evil monster. She stood up and brushed away tears that had formed in her eyes. She could still hear what Psyfoam had said in her mind when their eyes connected.

Your uncle failed, even as a fusion. Your father failed, even with the help of his sleeping powers. Your grandfather failed, even as a SS5, even though he was fused with Vegeta. You come from a long line of failures, Pan. Guess that means you're going to fail, too.

"He's right. What chance do I have if everyone else failed, if my whole family failed?" Pan whispered to herself.

Oh come on, now. That kind of attitude won't get you anywhere, even if it is the truth.

Pan hardly noticed when her father landed on the ground behind her. "Pan, let's go. We don't have a choice; we can't do anything."

She heard Vee's screams as Psyfoam put the cocky youth through more torment, and she grew angry. Angry at Psyfoam for hurting Vee, angry at her father for saying it was impossible to win, angry at everyone else for failing and giving up, but especially angry at Psyfoam for throwing her aside like some kind of push over. Besides, she had not failed, yet. Vee was right. That kind of attitude won't get you anywhere.

"Psyfoam! We're not finished!"

Gohan stumbled backwards behind her, "Pan, you're...you're a Super Saiyan!"

She looked straight ahead, feeling the new power, but knowing she still posed no threat to Psyfoam. Well, the least she could do was save Vee from death. Pan lifted up into the air and flew toward Vee and Psyfoam with a frown on her face.

The cloaked, evil being swung his tail around, throwing Vee's beaten, half-unconscious form toward Pan. She reached out and caught him, instantly lowering to the ground because she was too small to carry him. She looked him over, and grew angry at the pained look on his face.

"Psyfoam, you fucking ass-hole! You may win the battle, but we'll win the war!"

Vee laughed lightly, eyes half-open. "Heh, you sound just like me..." He winced from pain, but kept his eyes open. "Super Saiyan...wow..."

"Oh shut up, already. Don't you know when you're too hurt to talk?"

Vee laughed, "Nope...never do, never will. Now, go fight Psyfoam...before that ass-hole throws a fit."

Pan nodded and immediately took off in the air to meet Psyfoam's hard-rock expression. "Good morning, A-hole, welcome to a world of pain and suffering," Pan said before punching out in a combinations of attack she had never thrown before. Of course, Psyfoam dodged them so quickly he didn't even appear to be moving.

The evil being gripped both of her wrists in his hands. "Good night, Super Saiyan, thank you for the energy."

And in a quick flash of light and energy, Pan lost her golden aura, her hair turned back to black, as did her eyes, which closed as she drifted into darkness. Psyfoam merely laughed mercilessly.

Supreme Kai shook his head. "It was an amazing accomplishment for the girl, but not enough to defeat Psyfoam. There's no way we are going to win this; our best chances have all failed. We are so doomed."

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Reda: Supreme Kai sure gets annoying some times.

Pieboy: No, he makes perfect sense.

Reda: I didn't say anything about him being confusing...I just said he was annoying.

Pieboy: Stop saying he's confusing, Reda. I'm the confusing one remember?

Pan: You are annoying! And confusing!

Pieboy: No, I'm not confusing. Reda is.

Gohan: Oh great. Now I'm confused.

Vee: That's his job, Gohan. Just like it's my job to be annoying, it's Pieboy's job to be confusing.

Pieboy: (continues to walk around the room, looks the other way, and then runs right into Jake) Oops.

Jake: Gotcha!

Everybody: Yay!

Reda: Go Jake!

Chi-Chi: What do you think we should do with him?

Pieboy: Um...put me down?

Everyone: No!

Vee: Throw him out the window.

Jake: Nah...He'll just escape and come right back.

Vee: True...

Pan: You could send him to hell.

Reda: Yeah! I like that idea! I've been to hell once...um...more than once...and so has Jake. It's Pieboy's turn!

Pieboy: No!

Everyone else: Ok.

Jake: (smirks and charges up a really powerful energy blast) Now you die! (Shoot the energy blast, big explosion and smoke follows...when smoke clears...Pieboy is gone.) That was fun.

Reda: (hugs Jake) Go Jake! You're awesome!

Gohan: I wonder what he's doing now.

(Scene changes to Hell (HFIL))

Pieboy: (walking around aimlessly with a halo over his head, runs into Frieza) Hey, eat pie!

Frieza: What?

Pieboy: Pie is good for you.

Frieza: O...k...I'll eat the pie as soon as I finish eating some of this delicious cheese.

Pieboy: Cheese??? No!!!!!!!! Pie is better!!!

Frieza: I'd have to disagree with you. Cheese rules down here. (Points to every villain in hell, eating cheese)

Pieboy: Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Back to Reda's house)

Reda: (smirks) I think he's finally paying for his crimes.

So...review time!

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